242 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOUENALS. [Chap. IX. 



Chitimba's people are fighting for the chieftainship : great 

 hunger prevails there now, the Arabs having bought up all 

 the food. Moriri, a chief dispossessed of his country by 

 Nsama, wished Haniees to restore his possessions, but 

 Hamees said that he had made peace, and' would not 

 interfere. 



This unfavourable news from a part where the chief 

 results of their trading were deposited, made Syde and Tipo 

 Tipo decide to remain in Buire only ten or twenty days, 

 send out people to buy what ivory they could find, and then 

 retire. 



As Syde and Tipo Tipo were sending men to Casembe for 

 ivory, I resolved to go thither first, instead of shaping my 

 course for Ujiji. 



Very many cases of goitre in men and women here : I see 

 no reason for it. This is only 3350 feet above the sea. 



Itli November. — Start for Moero, convoyed by all the 

 Arabs for some distance : they have been extremely kind. 

 We draw neaivito the mountain-range on our left, called 

 Kakoma, and sleep at one of Kaputa's villages, our course 

 now being nearly south. 



8t7i November. — Villages are very thickly studded over 

 the valley formed by Kakoma range, and another at a 

 greater distance on our right ; 100 or 200 yards is a com- 

 mon distance between these villages, which, like those in 

 Londa, or Lunda, are all shaded with trees of a species of 

 Ficus indica. One belongs to Puta, and this Puta, the 

 paramount chief, sent to say that if we slept there, and 

 gave him a cloth, he would send men to conduct us next 

 day, and ferry us across : I was willing to remain, but his 

 people would not lend a hut, so we came on to the Lake,, 

 and no ferry. Probably he thought that we were going 

 across the Lualaba into Kua. 



Lake Moero seems of goodly size, and is flanked by 

 ranges of mountains on the east and west. Its banks are 



